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New Hop scholarship to benefit area students attending Dordt
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08/11/2010
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A new scholarship at Dordt College has been established by a Rock
Rapids native to honor his mother, his hometown, and the schools he
attended in his youth.
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Denny Hop (Dordt College Class of \uc1\u8217?77) is now a resident
of Calgary, AB, where his occupation is wealth management. He returned
to Rock Rapids \'46riday, July 30, to host a luncheon honoring his
mother, Gerdena Hop, on her 85th birthday.
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With about 25 friends and family members in attendance, Hop signed
and presented Dordt personnel with the Gerdena Hop Den Ouden Scholarship
Agreement, a scholarship fund that offers four scholarships annually
at Dordt College.
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The Gerdena Hop Den Ouden Scholarship will benefit a student from
Rock Rapids attending Western Christian; a student at Western Christian
who is majoring in music; a student at Southwest Christian High (Edgerton,
Minn.) majoring in music; and an area woman\uc1\u8217?s basketball
player who intends to attend Dordt College.
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A pair of annual scholarships honoring Denny\uc1\u8217?s father, Jake
Hop, are already in place at Dordt College and have already benefitted
a dozen recipients from the Rock Rapids area who play men\uc1\u8217?s
basketball, as Denny did while attending Dordt.
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The new scholarships are a reflection of Gerdena\uc1\u8217?s appreciation
of music and Christian education, as well as extending scholarship
funding to a woman\uc1\u8217?s basketball player.
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Gerdena Den Ouden was a native of Edgerton, Minn. After marriage,
Jake and Gerdena Hop raised their family in the Rock Rapids area,
with the children attending Western Christian High School in Hull.
Gerdena now lives in Omaha, near her daughter Jean Madden.
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Dordt College currently has about 100 donor\_funded scholarships,
and more than 13 percent of last year\uc1\u8217?s students received
a donor\_funded scholarship. \line
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PHOTO: Pictured are Gerdena Hop (seated), with Jean Madden and Denny
Hop, who established four annual scholarships at Dordt College in
honor of Gerdena\uc1\u8217?s 85th birthday. \line
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